I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's PERFECT. So that it's full of SADNESS.

I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and SMOOTH over the GRAVES of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair HUNTING ground, and TURN his FACE in sadness to the setting sun.

There is no SINGER I can think of who can touch Ella Fitzgerald. And when Billie Holiday sings, she's merciless about it. Her voice has just this immaculate sadness - even in HAPPY songs, there was SOMETHING that was so broken about it.

Most POETS in their YOUTH begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more REWARDING to END in gladness.

I knew I wanted to be an ACTOR the first time I thought it wasn't going to be possible and decided to GO another way. I was filled with this incredible SADNESS - and every time my life LED me away from it, I FOUGHT to get back to it.

I think when PEOPLE HEAR my book on Audible, they'll hear the inflection in my voice, the tone, and understand me a little bit better and understand my family a little bit better in the ways that I TELL the STORIES. Some are told with laughter, and some are told with SADNESS.

In my MIND, the CalMac ferry is linked with the joy of arrival, the sadness of departure, the loss of loved ones BROUGHT home by ferry to rest in island soil. It is FRIENDSHIPS made and a working life begun.

I THINK THINGS are DISHONEST if they're not AWARE of SADNESS.

My declining allure is a SOURCE of GREAT SADNESS to me.

I have very intense feelings of joy or sadness. I used to not like that so much because I was worried it was girly, and I wanted to be more stoic. I THINK this happens a LOT. When you're 16, there are QUALITIES you wish you didn't have, and then when you're 30, you're like, 'Thank God I have that; OTHERWISE, I'd be living LESS vividly.'

I was never able to get through Mellon Collie and the INFINITE Sadness. I've never been able to make it through. And I love the Smashing Pumpkins, they're one of my favorite BANDS EVER, but I've never been able to listen to the WHOLE thing all the way through.

In FACT, I can confidently say that 'South Park's' penchant for unbridled derision has been DIRECTLY responsible for my own joy in some TIMES of TERRIBLE sadness.

After my FIRST MARRIAGE ended in 2002 I went out with someone who made me feel very sexy. He was ten years younger than me and full of the joy of YOUTH, which was wonderful after all the SADNESS of divorce, and a great confidence boost.

I FIGHT manic-depression, and I have been ABLE to LIVE battling that sadness that I get sometimes.